Over two hundred years of Supreme Court law have established that persons who enter the country unlawfully and bear no connections to the U.S. do not have the full scope of affirmative constitutional rights of a U.S. citizen. This long-standing … Read

Now that recreational pot smoking is legal in seven states and the District of Columbia (and for medical and pseudo-medical reasons in twenty more), many good people are wondering, why not pot? You can eat it, vape it, mook it, dab it, tinc it, and rub it. Everyone is doing it to relax, stir creativity and awaken their libido. Why the heck not join in? Read

An estimated 15% of women of childbearing age suffer from absolute uterine infertility (AUI), which means their uterus is either non-functioning or non-existent. Up till now, fertility specialists have told them that if they want a child they should either adopt or do surrogacy. Now there may be a third option, at least for wealthy women, who have $500,000 to pay for the expensive procedure. The desire for children runs deep, but is such a transplant ever morally legitimate? Read

Senators, actors, judges, producers, ex-presidents and celebrities of all stripes…so far. Surely, there are more to come. Why so many? Why now? Perhaps decades of feminizing and adrogenizing young boys, rather than being the promised elixir which protects females from being objectified, is really the proverbial road paved with good intentions. Perhaps what we really need, both men and women, is a virtuous masculinity, one that reflects the gifts and duties of being male: to protect, to serve and to provide. Read

While researching the benefits of marriage, I was shocked to see a recommended article entitled “6 Reasons To Sext Your Husband” by Krystle Schoonveld, a military wife. Each of the 6 reasons provided is accompanied by an explanation, which, on the surface, might seem reasonable to many. However, each is not. And while her errors are not egregious or necessarily obvious, they are toxic nonetheless. Read

The first event in the formation of a human being is the fusion of the ovum and the spermatozoid into a single cell; this is known as conception. From this single cell, the embryo develops continually, in an uninterrupted process, passing from one stage of differentiation to the next. At no point in this process can the embryo be said to be anything other than what it was in any previous stage. This process will not cease until death. Read

In February 2017, the US National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine summarized its conclusion from a 2015 International Summit on gene editing. The summit gathered nearly 500 scientists, ethicists and legal experts to discuss ethical concerns raised by the new gene-editing technologies. Other than gestures and innuendos, no traditional ethical reasoning made it into the report. It is purely utilitarian: destroying human embryos is justifiable if at the service of the greater good. Read

“[I]n today’s hookup culture, developing an emotional attachment to a casual sex partner is one of the biggest breaches of social norms…. [T]here’s a dichotomy between meaningless and meaningful sex…and students have to prove that they’re not emotionally attached to their sex partners, and in fact that they care less than the other person.” — Lisa Wade in American Hookup. Money is no longer the most costly aspect of going to college. Read

Standing at the base of the Olongapo mountains, hemmed in on one side by a tropical forest and on the other by rows of rice fields, lies the residence of over 40 young girls. Most are between seven and seventeen years old. The youngest, Lea, is only five. All are victims of sexual abuse. When Lea first arrived six months earlier, she was emaciated and lethargic. Now, she runs and plays, winning nearly every game of tag. But she still has scars on her forehead and skull from the abuse she experienced at home. Read

Patients who experience cycles of sleep and wakefulness but with no evidence of awareness of self or environment are said to lie in a vegetative state. When the condition endures for at least one month, the state is tagged “persistent.” Hence the diagnostic term Persistent Vegetative State. Unfortunately, in the minds of many people, persistent means irreversible. Yet, reports of PVS patients recovering consciousness are well documented; and studies demonstrating the ability of PVS patients mentally to communicate are numerous. Read